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Start your family history Story Blog to write your stories one at a time. Use our story prompts to elicit memories in all life stages, milestones, and wisdom, etc. Share your stories with only family or promote your blog in our public library. Print your legacy stories in an heirloom Legacy Book.

Do you have a story about a
person, event or experience that affected you?

You could share that story with our listeners on theLegacy Café Podcast!

We are looking for some real life legacy stories that can enrich and inspire our Legacy Café Podcast listeners. By submitting your story for consideration, you'll not only have a chance to be a phone-in guest on the podcast, but you'll also enrich your family, friends, and future generations. What better incentive to finally starting writing your legacies stories, right?

Here's How it Works:

Write a story in 500 words or less about...

A person who affected me (family, friend, teacher, stranger.......)

An event that affected me (birth, death, accident, milestone.....)

An experience that changed me (war, job, travel.....)

What can you win?

We will choose several "Top Story" winners so more people have a chance to share their story on the Legacy Café Podcast. We'll choose only one "Grand Legacy Story" winner, who'll win additional prizes.

In addition to being interviewed by Legacy Café podcast host, Robb Lucy, here's what you could receive for letting the world read your story:

"Top Stories" will be published on our sister sites: LegacyStories.org and LegacyCafe.org. We'll engage our wide social media networks to assure these stories are read by hundreds of thousands of people.

One 'Grand Legacy Story' winner be chosen, and its author will receive two wonderful prizes:

The Legacy Café Podcast will periodically feature story-winning authors. Robb Lucy will chat with these authors and discuss what makes them powerful legacy stories. So, all 'Top Story' candidates have a chance to be guests on the show.

Your Legacy Story Blog (where your stories reside) will attract thousands of fascinated readers because of our vast social network promotion. Your story will be enjoyed....then passed down to future generations.

The Rules

Follow these simple guidelines:

Story must be true

Limit the story to 500 words or less

Submit your story by February 1, 2018

Judging Criteria

Judges are Tom Cormier, Co-founder of Legacy Stories and the Legacy Café Podcast, and Robb Lucy, Founder of Create My Legacy, and Co-Founder/Host of the Legacy Café Podcast.

Stories are judged on a 100-point system, based on the following criteria:

The story's Wow! factor 25

A story that will travel well into the future 25

Entertainment value 20

Emotional value 20

Early story submission 10

How To Submit Your Story

Just follow these 3 steps

STEP 1:
Log in or create your free LegacyStories.org account

STEP 2:
Click 'Add New Story"

STEP 3:
Write your story
Be sure to set the audience to 'Public'
You can 'Save' as a draft until you're ready to publish
When ready, click the green 'Publish Now' button.

Submit your story by January 31, 2018!(10 points extra for submission in 2017)